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Brooksie is Currently Reading

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Amazing Grace Adams

by Fran Littlewood

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Jul 11, 2026 01:30PM

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Mercy Watson is Missing!

by Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

by J.K. Rowling

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Brooksie’s Notes & Highlights

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Regrettably she also drilled the karmic repercussions of gossip and lying into me—the fourth Buddhist precept is unambiguous on this—and thus at the age of eight my political career was over before it began.

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Brooksie’s Quotes

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

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“Our children are not perfect, but they are perfectly designed to perfect us into the image of Christ.”
― Amber Lia, Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses

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“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: belief, development, evolution, intelligence, misattributed-to-einstein, new-ideas, open-mindedness, thought

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